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package com.heaptrip.util.http.bixo.fetcher;

import com.heaptrip.util.http.bixo.config.FetcherPolicy;
import com.heaptrip.util.http.bixo.config.FetcherPolicy.RedirectMode;
import com.heaptrip.util.http.bixo.config.UserAgent;
import com.heaptrip.util.http.bixo.datum.HttpHeaders;
import com.heaptrip.util.http.bixo.datum.TupleTwo;
import com.heaptrip.util.http.bixo.exceptions.*;
import com.heaptrip.util.http.bixo.exceptions.RedirectFetchException.RedirectExceptionReason;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import org.apache.http.*;
import org.apache.http.ProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.CookieStore;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpRequestRetryHandler;
import org.apache.http.client.RedirectException;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpRequestBase;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.apache.http.client.params.ClientParamBean;
import org.apache.http.client.params.CookiePolicy;
import org.apache.http.client.params.HttpClientParams;
import org.apache.http.client.protocol.ClientContext;
import org.apache.http.conn.ConnectionPoolTimeoutException;
import org.apache.http.conn.params.ConnManagerParams;
import org.apache.http.conn.params.ConnPerRouteBean;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.PlainSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.Scheme;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.SchemeRegistry;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.AbstractVerifier;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.cookie.params.CookieSpecParamBean;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicCookieStore;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRedirectHandler;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicHeader;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.params.BasicHttpParams;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpConnectionParams;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpParams;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpProtocolParams;
import org.apache.http.protocol.BasicHttpContext;
import org.apache.http.protocol.ExecutionContext;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import javax.net.ssl.SSLException;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class SimpleHttpFetcher extends BaseFetcher {
    private static Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(SimpleHttpFetcher.class);

    // We tried 10 seconds for all of these, but got a number of connection/read
    // timeouts for
    // sites that would have eventually worked, so bumping it up to 30 seconds.
    private static final int DEFAULT_SOCKET_TIMEOUT = 30 * 1000;
    private static final int DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT = 30 * 1000;

    private static final int DEFAULT_MAX_THREADS = 30;

    // This normally don't ever hit this timeout, since we manage the number of
    // fetcher threads to be <= the maxThreads value used to configure an
    // IHttpFetcher.
    // But the limit of connections/host can cause a timeout, when redirects cause
    // multiple threads to hit the same domain. So jack the value way up.
    private static final long CONNECTION_POOL_TIMEOUT = 100 * 1000L;

    private static final int BUFFER_SIZE = 8 * 1024;
    private static final int DEFAULT_MAX_RETRY_COUNT = 10;

    private static final int DEFAULT_BYTEARRAY_SIZE = 32 * 1024;

    // TODO KKr - figure out best value for this.
    // This is what Firefox uses (below)
    // Nutch has
    // text/html,application/xml;q=0.9,application/xhtml+xml,text/xml;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
    private static final String DEFAULT_ACCEPT = "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8";
    private static final String DEFAULT_ACCEPT_CHARSET = "utf-8,ISO-8859-1;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";

    // Keys used to access data in the Http execution context.
    private static final String PERM_REDIRECT_CONTEXT_KEY = "perm-redirect";
    private static final String REDIRECT_COUNT_CONTEXT_KEY = "redirect-count";
    private static final String HOST_ADDRESS = "host-address";

    private static final String SSL_CONTEXT_NAMES[] = { "TLS", "Default", "SSL", };

    private HttpVersion _httpVersion;
    private int _socketTimeout;
    private int _connectionTimeout;
    private int _maxRetryCount;

    transient private DefaultHttpClient _httpClient;

    private static class MyRequestRetryHandler implements HttpRequestRetryHandler {
        private int _maxRetryCount;

        public MyRequestRetryHandler(int maxRetryCount) {
            _maxRetryCount = maxRetryCount;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean retryRequest(IOException exception, int executionCount, HttpContext context) {
            if (LOGGER.isTraceEnabled()) {
                LOGGER.trace("Decide about retry #" + executionCount + " for exception " + exception.getMessage());
            }

            if (executionCount >= _maxRetryCount) {
                // Do not retry if over max retry count
                return false;
            } else if (exception instanceof NoHttpResponseException) {
                // Retry if the server dropped connection on us
                return true;
            } else if (exception instanceof SSLHandshakeException) {
                // Do not retry on SSL handshake exception
                return false;
            }

            HttpRequest request = (HttpRequest) context.getAttribute(ExecutionContext.HTTP_REQUEST);
            boolean idempotent = !(request instanceof HttpEntityEnclosingRequest);
            // Retry if the request is considered idempotent
            return idempotent;
        }
    }

    private static class MyRedirectException extends RedirectException {

        private URI _uri;
        private RedirectExceptionReason _reason;

        public MyRedirectException(String message, URI uri, RedirectExceptionReason reason) {
            super(message);
            _uri = uri;
            _reason = reason;
        }

        public URI getUri() {
            return _uri;
        }

        public RedirectExceptionReason getReason() {
            return _reason;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Handler to record last permanent redirect (if any) in context.
     * 
     */
    private static class MyRedirectHandler extends DefaultRedirectHandler {

        private RedirectMode _redirectMode;

        public MyRedirectHandler(RedirectMode redirectMode) {
            super();

            _redirectMode = redirectMode;
        }

        @Override
        public URI getLocationURI(HttpResponse response, HttpContext context) throws ProtocolException {

            // HACK by Julius - some sites return a redirect with a " " space
            // character rather
            // than a properly encoded %20 -- this is to catch that error
            Header redirectHeader = response.getFirstHeader("Location");
            String redirectHeaderValue = redirectHeader.getValue();
            if (redirectHeaderValue.contains(" ")) {
                response.setHeader("Location", StringUtils.replace(redirectHeaderValue, " ", "%20"));
            }

            URI result = super.getLocationURI(response, context);

            // HACK - some sites return a redirect with an explicit port number that's
            // the same as
            // the default port (e.g. 80 for http), and then when you use this to make
            // the next
            // request, the presence of the port in the domain triggers another
            // redirect, so you
            // fail with a circular redirect error. Avoid that by converting the port
            // number to
            // -1 in that case.
            if (result.getScheme().equalsIgnoreCase("http") && (result.getPort() == 80)) {
                try {
                    result = new URI(result.getScheme(), result.getUserInfo(), result.getHost(), -1,
                            result.getPath(), result.getQuery(), result.getFragment());
                } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
                    LOGGER.warn("Unexpected exception removing port from URI", e);
                }
            }

            // Keep track of the number of redirects.
            Integer count = (Integer) context.getAttribute(REDIRECT_COUNT_CONTEXT_KEY);
            if (count == null) {
                count = new Integer(0);
            }

            context.setAttribute(REDIRECT_COUNT_CONTEXT_KEY, count + 1);

            // Record the last permanent redirect
            int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
            if (statusCode == HttpStatus.SC_MOVED_PERMANENTLY) {
                context.setAttribute(PERM_REDIRECT_CONTEXT_KEY, result);
            }

            // Based on the redirect mode, decide how we want to handle this.
            boolean isPermRedirect = statusCode == HttpStatus.SC_MOVED_PERMANENTLY;
            if ((_redirectMode == RedirectMode.FOLLOW_NONE)
                    || ((_redirectMode == RedirectMode.FOLLOW_TEMP) && isPermRedirect)) {
                RedirectExceptionReason reason = isPermRedirect ? RedirectExceptionReason.PERM_REDIRECT_DISALLOWED
                        : RedirectExceptionReason.TEMP_REDIRECT_DISALLOWED;
                throw new MyRedirectException("RedirectMode disallowed redirect: " + _redirectMode, result, reason);
            }

            return result;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Interceptor to record host address in context.
     * 
     */
    private static class MyRequestInterceptor implements HttpRequestInterceptor {

        @Override
        public void process(HttpRequest request, HttpContext context) throws HttpException, IOException {

            HttpInetConnection connection = (HttpInetConnection) (context
                    .getAttribute(ExecutionContext.HTTP_CONNECTION));

            context.setAttribute(HOST_ADDRESS, connection.getRemoteAddress().getHostAddress());
        }
    }

    private static class DummyX509HostnameVerifier extends AbstractVerifier {

        @Override
        public void verify(String host, String[] cns, String[] subjectAlts) throws SSLException {
            try {
                verify(host, cns, subjectAlts, false);
            } catch (SSLException e) {
                LOGGER.warn("Invalid SSL certificate for " + host + ": " + e.getMessage());
            }
        }

        @Override
        public final String toString() {
            return "DUMMY_VERIFIER";
        }

    }

    public SimpleHttpFetcher(UserAgent userAgent) {
        this(DEFAULT_MAX_THREADS, userAgent);
    }

    public SimpleHttpFetcher(int maxThreads, UserAgent userAgent) {
        this(maxThreads, new FetcherPolicy(), userAgent);
    }

    public SimpleHttpFetcher(int maxThreads, FetcherPolicy fetcherPolicy, UserAgent userAgent) {
        super(maxThreads, fetcherPolicy, userAgent);

        _httpVersion = HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1;
        _socketTimeout = DEFAULT_SOCKET_TIMEOUT;
        _connectionTimeout = DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT;
        _maxRetryCount = DEFAULT_MAX_RETRY_COUNT;

        // Just to be explicit, we rely on lazy initialization of this so that
        // we don't have to worry about serializing it.
        _httpClient = null;
    }

    public HttpVersion getHttpVersion() {
        return _httpVersion;
    }

    public void setHttpVersion(HttpVersion httpVersion) {
        if (_httpClient == null) {
            _httpVersion = httpVersion;
        } else {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Can't change HTTP version after HttpClient has been initialized");
        }
    }

    public int getSocketTimeout() {
        return _socketTimeout;
    }

    public void setSocketTimeout(int socketTimeoutInMs) {
        if (_httpClient == null) {
            _socketTimeout = socketTimeoutInMs;
        } else {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Can't change socket timeout after HttpClient has been initialized");
        }
    }

    public int getConnectionTimeout() {
        return _connectionTimeout;
    }

    public void setConnectionTimeout(int connectionTimeoutInMs) {
        if (_httpClient == null) {
            _connectionTimeout = connectionTimeoutInMs;
        } else {
            throw new IllegalStateException(
                    "Can't change connection timeout after HttpClient has been initialized");
        }
    }

    public int getMaxRetryCount() {
        return _maxRetryCount;
    }

    public void setMaxRetryCount(int maxRetryCount) {
        _maxRetryCount = maxRetryCount;
    }

    public FetchedResult get(String url) throws BaseFetchException {
        return get(url, null);
    }

    public FetchedResult get(String url, List<TupleTwo<?, ?>> headers) throws BaseFetchException {
        HttpRequestBase request = new HttpGet();
        request.setHeader("User-Agent", _userAgent.getUserAgentString());
        return fetch(request, url, null, headers);
    }

    public FetchedResult post(String url, List<TupleTwo<?, ?>> data) throws BaseFetchException {
        return post(url, data, null);
    }

    public FetchedResult post(String url, List<TupleTwo<?, ?>> data, List<TupleTwo<?, ?>> headers)
            throws BaseFetchException {
        HttpRequestBase request = new HttpPost();
        request.setHeader("User-Agent", _userAgent.getUserAgentString());
        return fetch(request, url, data, headers);
    }

    public FetchedResult fetch(HttpRequestBase request, String url, List<TupleTwo<?, ?>> data,
            List<TupleTwo<?, ?>> headers) throws BaseFetchException {
        init();

        try {
            return doRequest(request, url, data, headers);
        } catch (BaseFetchException e) {
            if (LOGGER.isTraceEnabled()) {
                LOGGER.trace(String.format("Exception fetching %s", url), e);
            }
            throw e;
        }
    }

    private FetchedResult doRequest(HttpRequestBase request, String url, List<TupleTwo<?, ?>> data,
            List<TupleTwo<?, ?>> headers) throws BaseFetchException {
        LOGGER.trace("Fetching " + url);

        HttpResponse response;
        long readStartTime;
        HttpHeaders headerMap = new HttpHeaders();
        String redirectedUrl = null;
        String newBaseUrl = null;
        int numRedirects = 0;
        boolean needAbort = true;
        String contentType = "";
        String hostAddress = null;

        // Create a local instance of cookie store, and bind to local context
        // Without this we get killed w/lots of threads, due to sync() on single
        // cookie store.
        HttpContext localContext = new BasicHttpContext();
        CookieStore cookieStore = new BasicCookieStore();
        localContext.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, cookieStore);

        try {
            URI uri = new URI(url);
            request.setURI(uri);
            request.setHeader("Host", uri.getHost());

            if (headers != null) {
                for (TupleTwo<?, ?> t : headers) {
                    request.setHeader(t.getKey().toString(), t.getValue().toString());
                }
            }

            //collect post data if available
            if (request instanceof HttpPost && data != null) {
                List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(1);
                for (TupleTwo<?, ?> e : data) {
                    nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair(URLEncoder.encode(e.getKey().toString(), "utf-8"),
                            URLEncoder.encode(e.getValue().toString(), "utf-8")));
                }
                ((HttpPost) (request)).setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
            }

            readStartTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
            response = _httpClient.execute(request, localContext);

            Header[] responseHeaders = response.getAllHeaders();
            for (Header header : responseHeaders) {
                headerMap.add(header.getName(), header.getValue());
            }

            int httpStatus = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
            if ((httpStatus < 200) || (httpStatus >= 300)) {
                // We can't just check against SC_OK, as some wackos return 201, 202,
                // etc
                throw new HttpFetchException(url,
                        "Error fetching " + url + " due to http status code " + httpStatus, httpStatus, headerMap);
            }

            redirectedUrl = extractRedirectedUrl(url, localContext);

            URI permRedirectUri = (URI) localContext.getAttribute(PERM_REDIRECT_CONTEXT_KEY);
            if (permRedirectUri != null) {
                newBaseUrl = permRedirectUri.toURL().toExternalForm();
            }

            Integer redirects = (Integer) localContext.getAttribute(REDIRECT_COUNT_CONTEXT_KEY);
            if (redirects != null) {
                numRedirects = redirects.intValue();
            }

            hostAddress = (String) (localContext.getAttribute(HOST_ADDRESS));
            if (hostAddress == null) {
                throw new UrlFetchException(url, "Host address not saved in context");
            }

            Header cth = response.getFirstHeader(HttpHeaderNames.CONTENT_TYPE);
            if (cth != null) {
                contentType = cth.getValue();
            }

            needAbort = false;
        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
            // Oleg guarantees that no abort is needed in the case of an IOException
            // (which is is a subclass of)
            needAbort = false;

            // If the root case was a "too many redirects" error, we want to map this
            // to a specific
            // exception that contains the final redirect.
            if (e.getCause() instanceof MyRedirectException) {
                MyRedirectException mre = (MyRedirectException) e.getCause();
                String redirectUrl = url;

                try {
                    redirectUrl = mre.getUri().toURL().toExternalForm();
                } catch (MalformedURLException e2) {
                    LOGGER.warn("Invalid URI saved during redirect handling: " + mre.getUri());
                }

                throw new RedirectFetchException(url, redirectUrl, mre.getReason());
            } else if (e.getCause() instanceof RedirectException) {
                throw new RedirectFetchException(url, extractRedirectedUrl(url, localContext),
                        RedirectExceptionReason.TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS);
            } else {
                throw new IOFetchException(url, e);
            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // Oleg guarantees that no abort is needed in the case of an IOException
            needAbort = false;

            if (e instanceof ConnectionPoolTimeoutException) {
                // Should never happen, so let's dump some info about the connection
                // pool.
                ThreadSafeClientConnManager cm = (ThreadSafeClientConnManager) _httpClient.getConnectionManager();
                int numConnections = cm.getConnectionsInPool();
                cm.closeIdleConnections(0, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
                LOGGER.error(String.format(
                        "Got ConnectionPoolTimeoutException: %d connections before, %d after idle close",
                        numConnections, cm.getConnectionsInPool()));
            }

            throw new IOFetchException(url, e);
        } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
            throw new UrlFetchException(url, e.getMessage());
        } catch (IllegalStateException e) {
            throw new UrlFetchException(url, e.getMessage());
        } catch (BaseFetchException e) {
            throw e;
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // Map anything else to a generic IOFetchException
            // TODO KKr - create generic fetch exception
            throw new IOFetchException(url, new IOException(e));
        } finally {
            safeAbort(needAbort, request);
        }

        // Figure out how much data we want to try to fetch.
        int targetLength = _fetcherPolicy.getMaxContentSize();
        boolean truncated = false;
        String contentLengthStr = headerMap.getFirst(HttpHeaderNames.CONTENT_LENGTH);
        if (contentLengthStr != null) {
            try {
                int contentLength = Integer.parseInt(contentLengthStr);
                if (contentLength > targetLength) {
                    truncated = true;
                } else {
                    targetLength = contentLength;
                }
            } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
                // Ignore (and log) invalid content length values.
                LOGGER.warn("Invalid content length in header: " + contentLengthStr);
            }
        }

        // Now finally read in response body, up to targetLength bytes.
        // Note that entity might be null, for zero length responses.
        byte[] content = new byte[0];
        long readRate = 0;
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        needAbort = true;

        if (entity != null) {
            InputStream in = null;

            try {
                in = entity.getContent();
                byte[] buffer = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
                int bytesRead = 0;
                int totalRead = 0;
                ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(DEFAULT_BYTEARRAY_SIZE);

                int readRequests = 0;
                int minResponseRate = _fetcherPolicy.getMinResponseRate();
                // TODO KKr - we need to monitor the rate while reading a
                // single block. Look at HttpClient
                // metrics support for how to do this. Once we fix this, fix
                // the test to read a smaller (< 20K)
                // chuck of data.
                while ((totalRead < targetLength) && ((bytesRead = in.read(buffer, 0,
                        Math.min(buffer.length, targetLength - totalRead))) != -1)) {
                    readRequests += 1;
                    totalRead += bytesRead;
                    out.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);

                    // Assume read time is at least one millisecond, to avoid DBZ
                    // exception.
                    long totalReadTime = Math.max(1, System.currentTimeMillis() - readStartTime);
                    readRate = (totalRead * 1000L) / totalReadTime;

                    // Don't bail on the first read cycle, as we can get a hiccup starting
                    // out.
                    // Also don't bail if we've read everything we need.
                    if ((readRequests > 1) && (totalRead < targetLength) && (readRate < minResponseRate)) {
                        throw new AbortedFetchException(url, "Slow response rate of " + readRate + " bytes/sec",
                                AbortedFetchReason.SLOW_RESPONSE_RATE);
                    }

                    // Check to see if we got interrupted.
                    if (Thread.interrupted()) {
                        throw new AbortedFetchException(url, AbortedFetchReason.INTERRUPTED);
                    }
                }

                content = out.toByteArray();
                needAbort = truncated || (in.available() > 0);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // We don't need to abort if there's an IOException
                throw new IOFetchException(url, e);
            } finally {
                safeAbort(needAbort, request);
                safeClose(in);
            }
        }

        return new FetchedResult(url, redirectedUrl, System.currentTimeMillis(), headerMap, content, contentType,
                (int) readRate, newBaseUrl, numRedirects, hostAddress);
    }

    private String extractRedirectedUrl(String url, HttpContext localContext) {
        // This was triggered by HttpClient with the redirect count was exceeded.
        HttpHost host = (HttpHost) localContext.getAttribute(ExecutionContext.HTTP_TARGET_HOST);
        HttpUriRequest finalRequest = (HttpUriRequest) localContext.getAttribute(ExecutionContext.HTTP_REQUEST);

        try {
            URL hostUrl = new URI(host.toURI()).toURL();
            return new URL(hostUrl, finalRequest.getURI().toString()).toExternalForm();
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            LOGGER.warn("Invalid host/uri specified in final fetch: " + host + finalRequest.getURI());
            return url;
        } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
            LOGGER.warn("Invalid host/uri specified in final fetch: " + host + finalRequest.getURI());
            return url;
        }
    }

    private static void safeClose(Closeable o) {
        if (o != null) {
            try {
                o.close();
            } catch (Exception e) {
                // Ignore any errors
            }
        }
    }

    private static void safeAbort(boolean needAbort, HttpRequestBase request) {
        if (needAbort && (request != null)) {
            try {
                request.abort();
            } catch (Throwable t) {
                // Ignore any errors
            }
        }
    }

    private synchronized void init() {
        if (_httpClient == null) {
            // Create and initialize HTTP parameters
            HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();

            // TODO KKr - w/4.1, switch to new api (ThreadSafeClientConnManager)
            // cm.setMaxTotalConnections(_maxThreads);
            // cm.setDefaultMaxPerRoute(Math.max(10, _maxThreads/10));
            ConnManagerParams.setMaxTotalConnections(params, _maxThreads);

            // Set the maximum time we'll wait for a spare connection in the
            // connection pool. We
            // shouldn't actually hit this, as we make sure (in FetcherManager) that
            // the max number
            // of active requests doesn't exceed the value returned by getMaxThreads()
            // here.
            ConnManagerParams.setTimeout(params, CONNECTION_POOL_TIMEOUT);

            // Set the socket and connection timeout to be something reasonable.
            HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(params, _socketTimeout);
            HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(params, _connectionTimeout);

            // Even with stale checking enabled, a connection can "go stale" between
            // the check and the
            // next request. So we still need to handle the case of a closed socket
            // (from the server side),
            // and disabling this check improves performance.
            HttpConnectionParams.setStaleCheckingEnabled(params, false);

            // FUTURE - set this on a per-route (host) basis when we have per-host
            // policies for
            // doing partner crawls. We could define a BixoConnPerRoute class that
            // supports this.
            ConnPerRouteBean connPerRoute = new ConnPerRouteBean(_fetcherPolicy.getMaxConnectionsPerHost());
            ConnManagerParams.setMaxConnectionsPerRoute(params, connPerRoute);

            HttpProtocolParams.setVersion(params, _httpVersion);
            HttpProtocolParams.setUserAgent(params, _userAgent.getUserAgentString());
            HttpProtocolParams.setContentCharset(params, "UTF-8");
            HttpProtocolParams.setHttpElementCharset(params, "UTF-8");
            HttpProtocolParams.setUseExpectContinue(params, true);

            // TODO KKr - set on connection manager params, or client params?
            CookieSpecParamBean cookieParams = new CookieSpecParamBean(params);
            cookieParams.setSingleHeader(true);

            // Create and initialize scheme registry
            SchemeRegistry schemeRegistry = new SchemeRegistry();
            schemeRegistry.register(new Scheme("http", PlainSocketFactory.getSocketFactory(), 80));
            SSLSocketFactory sf = null;

            if (sf != null) {
                sf.setHostnameVerifier(new DummyX509HostnameVerifier());
                schemeRegistry.register(new Scheme("https", sf, 443));
            } else {
                LOGGER.warn("No valid SSLContext found for https");
            }

            // Use ThreadSafeClientConnManager since more than one thread will be
            // using the HttpClient.
            ThreadSafeClientConnManager cm = new ThreadSafeClientConnManager(params, schemeRegistry);
            _httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(cm, params);
            _httpClient.setHttpRequestRetryHandler(new MyRequestRetryHandler(_maxRetryCount));
            _httpClient.setRedirectHandler(new MyRedirectHandler(_fetcherPolicy.getRedirectMode()));
            _httpClient.addRequestInterceptor(new MyRequestInterceptor());

            params = _httpClient.getParams();
            // FUTURE KKr - support authentication
            HttpClientParams.setAuthenticating(params, false);
            HttpClientParams.setCookiePolicy(params, CookiePolicy.BEST_MATCH);

            ClientParamBean clientParams = new ClientParamBean(params);
            if (_fetcherPolicy.getMaxRedirects() == 0) {
                clientParams.setHandleRedirects(false);
            } else {
                clientParams.setHandleRedirects(true);
                clientParams.setMaxRedirects(_fetcherPolicy.getMaxRedirects());
            }

            // Set up default headers. This helps us get back from servers what we
            // want.
            HashSet<Header> defaultHeaders = new HashSet<Header>();
            defaultHeaders
                    .add(new BasicHeader(HttpHeaderNames.ACCEPT_LANGUAGE, _fetcherPolicy.getAcceptLanguage()));
            defaultHeaders.add(new BasicHeader(HttpHeaderNames.ACCEPT_CHARSET, DEFAULT_ACCEPT_CHARSET));
            defaultHeaders.add(new BasicHeader(HttpHeaderNames.ACCEPT, DEFAULT_ACCEPT));

            clientParams.setDefaultHeaders(defaultHeaders);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void abort() {
        // TODO Actually try to abort
    }

}